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<span class=large>JOEL</span>
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CHAPTER 1
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Call a solemn assembly and gather to the house of the Lord, for the day of the Lord is at hand.
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The</span> word of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.
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Hear this, ye <sup>a</sup><a href="joel/1/2a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB elders.">old</a> men, and give ear, all ye <sup>b</sup><a href="joel/1/2b" mark="b" type="A" title="D&C 1: 6.">inhabitants</a> of the land.  Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?
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Tell ye your children of it, and <i>let</i> your children <i>tell</i> their children, and their children another generation.
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That which the <sup>a</sup><a href="joel/1/4a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE The invading or conquering armies are compared to four varieties (or stages of growth) of locusts.">palmerworm</a> hath left hath the <sup>b</sup><a href="joel/1/4b" mark="b" type="A" title="Lev. 26: 24 (14-38).">locust</a> eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.
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Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is <sup>a</sup><a href="joel/1/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 32: 10.">cut</a> off from your mouth.
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For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without <sup>a</sup><a href="joel/1/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="Rev. 9: 16.">number</a>, whose <sup>b</sup><a href="joel/1/6b" mark="b" type="A" title="Rev. 9: 8.">teeth</a> <i>are</i> the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.
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He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast <i>it</i> away; the branches thereof are made white.
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&#182; Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the <sup>a</sup><a href="joel/1/8a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 16: 32 (32-38).">husband</a> of her youth.
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The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>; the priests, the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>’s ministers, mourn.
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The field is wasted, the <sup>a</sup><a href="joel/1/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="Hosea 4: 3; D&C 43: 25 (24-25); D&C 87: 6 (1-8); JS-M 1: 29.">land</a> mourneth; for the <sup>b</sup><a href="joel/1/10b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR grain.">corn</a> is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
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Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished.
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The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, <i>even</i> all the trees of the field, are withered: because <sup>a</sup><a href="joel/1/12a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 24: 11.">joy</a> is withered away from the sons of men.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="joel/1/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 4: 8.">Gird</a> yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.
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&#182; Sanctify ye a <sup>a</sup><a href="joel/1/14a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Fasting.">fast</a>, call a <sup>b</sup><a href="joel/1/14b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Solemn Assembly.">solemn</a> assembly, gather the elders <i>and</i> all the inhabitants of the land <i>into</i> the house of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> your God, and cry unto the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>,
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Alas for the day!  for the <sup>a</sup><a href="joel/1/15a" mark="a" type="C" title="Jer. 46: 10; Amos 5: 18; TG Day of the Lord.">day</a> of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> <i>is</i> at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
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Is not the <sup>a</sup><a href="joel/1/16a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR food.">meat</a> cut off before our eyes, <i>yea,</i> joy and gladness from the house of our God?
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The seed is rotten under their clods, the <sup>a</sup><a href="joel/1/17a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR storehouses.">garners</a> are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.
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How do the beasts groan!  the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.
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O <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, to thee will I cry: for the <sup>a</sup><a href="joel/1/19a" mark="a" type="A" title="Zeph. 1: 18; 2 Ne. 6: 15 (14-15); Jacob 5: 77; Jacob 6: 3; D&C 29: 21; D&C 45: 41 (40-41); D&C 97: 26 (25-26).">fire</a> hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field.
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The <sup>a</sup><a href="joel/1/20a" mark="a" type="A" title="Joel 2: 22 (21-22).">beasts</a> of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.
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